OMG! Lost Horizon on TubiTV!
I used to love this movie as a kid, having watched it multiple times on TV—afterschool movie. It’s a musical with songs by Burt Bacharach, about a group of westerners who crash land in the Himalayas to find a hidden town of people who never grow older.
As an adult, I found out that it’s supposed to be one of the worst films ever made, with 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I’ve been wanting to re/watch it for years but could never find it on streaming—but now it’s on Tubi!!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 5, 2024 10:13 PM
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Does it include the hilarious fertility dance sequence?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 29, 2024 2:03 AM
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Is it the fully restored version with all the songs intact? To be honest, the restored Blu ray is one of my prized possessions. I saw it in the theater in 1973 as a little kid and it always haunted me. I waited 40 years to see the original version. Over the years my career took me Sally Kellerman's orbit and we spent a lot of time talking about it. She loved the singing and dancing but the script ugh.....
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 29, 2024 2:06 AM
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R2, great story. It seems like the full version
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 29, 2024 2:25 AM
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It's very watchable, as in entertaining trainwreck! My take...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 5 | November 29, 2024 2:38 AM
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The restored version is missing about 30 seconds of a duet with Sally and George Kennedy singing 'Living Together". The audio of it is on YouTube. When you watch the movie you can tell where they cut it. It's just during the scene when Sally and George are talking about building the aqueduct to the fields and the scene cuts to them opening up the water flow and the villagers cheering. If you look close you can see the villagers swaying to the music. Sally and George are on top of the aqueduct hugging each other.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 29, 2024 2:42 AM
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The world is a circle without a beginning and
nobody knows where the circle ends!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 29, 2024 2:42 AM
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R6, why do you know this???
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 29, 2024 2:43 AM
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Thanks OP! I was just looking on Tubi for a movie. Finishing up MMIS Louis. That Margaret O'Brian is something else. Crazy story about her Oscar being stolen.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 29, 2024 2:43 AM
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Poor Peter Finch looked suitably annoyed, exasperated with Michael York as they trudged through the snow.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 29, 2024 2:45 AM
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Dunno R6 guess cause as a little kid the concept of place like Shangri La appealed to me. Also Sally told me and I searched it out. She was a wonderful person by the way.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 29, 2024 2:47 AM
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I love Olivia Hussey!! I’m sad she’s been forgotten as a movie star
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 29, 2024 3:20 AM
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It expires in two days! Does watching this help Sally with her medical bills?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 29, 2024 3:33 AM
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Sally passed away over a year ago R13.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 29, 2024 3:36 AM
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I guess it didnt help with bills
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 29, 2024 2:35 PM
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I'm really liking the Sally and Olivia duet. I don't see any gays in Shangrala. I think Burt Bacarach wrote some of these songs in 30 minutes or less.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 29, 2024 9:18 PM
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I was mesmerized by this movie when I first saw it on TV in the ‘70s. I wanted to live in Shangri-la. I remember thinking, “Wow, those kids are so happy. They go to school outside, they dance and sing, and they don’t get bullied, because they don’t have gym class!"
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 29, 2024 9:24 PM
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I never miss a Liv Ullman musical.
For fuck’s sake, fellas, CATCH UP.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 29, 2024 10:41 PM
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Different people look at life from different points of view If you really want the things I have, just help yourself I give it all to you
My friends and I once sang this at the top of our lungs driving in the valley.....good times!
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 30, 2024 12:22 AM
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[Quote] I was mesmerized by this movie when I first saw it on TV in the ‘70s. I wanted to live in Shangri-la. I remember thinking, “Wow, those kids are so happy. They go to school outside, they dance and sing, and they don’t get bullied, because they don’t have gym class!"
I swear I thought exactly the same!!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 30, 2024 1:56 AM
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I was excited when I saw the topic "Lost Horizon" but then read this thread is about the crappy remake. The original Ronald Colman movie is a beauty although over the years, pieces of it have been destroyed. Whenever TCM shows it, they're run the original dialogue over still photos of those scenes. I hope the movie is never 'remade' again.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 30, 2024 2:14 AM
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[quote]I never miss a Liv Ullman musical.
BTW Bette, not only did I see Liv in "Lost Horizon", I also saw her in the B'way musical "I Remember Mama".
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 30, 2024 2:26 AM
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Ok. I finished it. I loved it and I don't know why. Bobby Van was actually really good in it. I didn't know what a good song and dance man he was. It's somewhat inconsistent in tone but maybe that's what makes it unique. Still wrapping my head around it.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 30, 2024 2:38 AM
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It’s leaving Tubi after today. NOOOOOOOO!
The fertility dance wasn’t included. Is it available to see anywhere else. I never miss a musical number with hot ethnic male dancers swanning about in diaper-like garb.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 30, 2024 10:42 PM
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Obviously Hermes Pan watched a few Bolllywood movies while he was choreographing this.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 25 | November 30, 2024 10:56 PM
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Pamela Ferdyn is in this as well but I didn't see her. I guess she's just one of the many chanting singing children.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 1, 2024 2:32 AM
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Pamela Ferdyn makes a great mushroom omelet.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 1, 2024 2:39 AM
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And I love her turtle soup!
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 2, 2024 7:56 PM
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Great little promotion video with Burt Bacharach and singing children. What a happy song!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 29 | December 2, 2024 8:28 PM
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It got awful reviews. But still I wanted to love it. I loved Thoroughly Modern Millie and Airport. And Burt Bacharach and Hall David. Come on. But after I saw it I thought the reviews had been kind. I never had any desire to see it again.
But a guilty pleasure is watching on youtube Sally and Olivia sing The Things I Will Not Miss, which is a good song but the staging is not so much by Hermes Pan as by Helen Keller.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 2, 2024 9:02 PM
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The original Lost Horizon opened as a roadshow movie in downtown movie theaters. It was then cut and in New York it played at Radio City with the stage show. I don't know if the movie has ever been restored to its original roadshow length. From what is said above I guess not. But Peter Finch is no Ronald Colman who is perfect. In like everything he did.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 2, 2024 9:10 PM
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I never miss a Richard Basehart musical.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 32 | December 2, 2024 9:24 PM
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I got through and then decided cleaning the litter box was a better use of my time. When this many good actors are this bad, you know it’s a stinker. And the worst songs I think I’ve ever heard in a musical film.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 3, 2024 2:45 AM
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You've never seen a Leslie Bricusse musical?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 3, 2024 8:09 PM
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There were some cover versions of the songs from the movie:
Fifth Dimension: "Living Together, Growing Together" (later also by Tony Bennett)
Diana Ross/Marvin Gaye: "Things I Will Not Miss."
Richard Harris: "If I Could Go Back"
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 3, 2024 8:27 PM
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[quote]The original Lost Horizon opened as a roadshow movie in downtown movie theaters. It was then cut and in New York it played at Radio City with the stage show. I don't know if the movie has ever been restored to its original roadshow length.
No, it didn't play Radio City Music Hall. It opened exclusive engagements with continuous showings, not Roadshow in NY with two theaters including The Lowes State on Broadway, one theater in New Jersey and this one here on Long Island.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | December 3, 2024 8:28 PM
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I have the DVD signed by Sally Kellerman. She told me she heard from people all through the years who told her how they loved it. Thanks CHILLER!
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 3, 2024 8:29 PM
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[quote]R24: The fertility dance wasn’t included. Is it available to see anywhere else. I never miss a musical number with hot ethnic male dancers swanning about in diaper-like garb.
I just glanced at the version I've got and it's there. (Extended Fertility Dance 01:06:08 - 01:08:21, followed by 'Living Together' reprise.)
Check the runtimes. If the film is 02:29:29 in length, then it's got it.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 3, 2024 10:46 PM
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Did Burt's favorite muse Miss Warwick record any of the songs? Or did she dodge that bullet?
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 3, 2024 10:57 PM
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Andra Willis who was briefly on "The Lawrence Welk Show" (1967 - 1969) provided the vocals for Olivia Hussey.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 4, 2024 4:49 AM
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R36 I said the original Lost horizon where I meant the Capra film.
I saw the musical during its first run at Loew's State 1.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 5, 2024 10:13 PM
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